Wednesday, July 22, 2026

How many people in the US are hospitalized with COVID-19? Who knows?

“The most pernicious portion of it is that at the state level and at the regional level we lost our situational awareness.”

Those Americans who refuse to wear masks, those who condone Trump’s reprehensible Covid-19 management

“Here’s what I have concluded: These two groups of Americans, those who reject masks and those who condone, are, not surprisingly, one and the same.”

Women’s cancer rates are rising in the Oil Gulf: Is global heating causing it?

There is a lot of fine particulate matter in the air in the Gulf, and if hotter temperatures make them harder on the human body, then that would be a problem.

Missouri’s largest peach farmer sues Monsanto for losses from illegal herbicide use

"We can't spray our way out of this problem. We need to get off the pesticide treadmill."

5 biggest pesticide companies are making billions from ‘highly hazardous’ chemicals, investigation finds

The researchers found that the sale of these highly hazardous pesticides (HHPs), disproportionately occurred in poorer nations, which often have fewer regulations than industrialized nations.

97,000 US kids test positive for COVID-19 on the brink of schools reopening

While children make up a small fraction of the number of positive coronavirus cases in the U.S., their portion is growing.

FDA unveils online database of chemical substances in food as part of MAHA initiative

The Chemical Contaminants Transparency Tool provides contaminant levels in an initiative to modernize food chemical safety.

General Mills Announces GMO Labeling for US Products

General Mills, the Minneapolis-based food giant, has announced Friday that consumers all over the U.S. will soon begin seeing GMO labeling legislated by the state of Vermont on many General Mills products.

Intelligence thieves: How toxic pollutants are robbing communities of color

In her new book, author and ethicist Harriet Washington unearths one of the most overlooked aspects of environmental racism.

A health breakthrough that depends on people, not drugs

Meet the system stewards, people from every walk of life who improve Americans’ well-being by tackling the deeper causes of disease and despair.